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Naveed

#9,446 in 2025Boys' name

Good news, through Navid

Naveed has been given to 685 babies in the U.S. since 1976. In 2025 it ranked #9,446 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 25 recorded.

Babies named Naveed, 2025

1 in 414,000

Naveed over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Naveed: meaning, origin, and history

Good news, through Navid

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Naveed means

Naveed belongs to the name family reached through Naveed → Navid. Its meaning is “good news”.

Origin, language, and formation

Naveed is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Navid and نوید.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 685 boys were recorded with the name Naveed between 1976 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 25 in 2015; its best national rank was #2,683 in 1987.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,906 in 2020 to #9,446 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,144 in 2015 to #9,446 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Naveed?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 213,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#9,446
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Naveed sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Naveed. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Naveeds were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Naveed was born before 2001 — so the typical Naveed is around 24 today.

Median birth year
2001
About 24 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
27.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
50.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
685
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 27.2% of all recorded uses (186).

Is Naveed rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+149
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,540
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−5,302
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.32×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
32.0%
Peak was 2015 (25)
Years since peak
10
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
43.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,683
1987

Spellings of Naveed

Naveed is not the most common spelling — Najee is, with 16.0% against Naveed's 4.0%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Naveed is used

Across 1910–2025, Naveed was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 445,747 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Naveed has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Naveed around the world

Where Naveed ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1974–1992
    #380
    in 1992
  • France
    2000–2000
    #4,299
    in 2000
  • Canada
    1994–2019
    #2,943
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    2011–2011
    #784
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Naveed by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#9,446
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,540
Best rank ever
#2,683
1987
Peak year
2015
25 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
685
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Naveed

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Naveed

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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